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Why I'm done with Scrum
My first foray into Agile was with a product team back in 2004-2005. It was my first “real” job out of college, and my first experience with a death march. During the death march, I was struck on how bad the idea of death marching was. Working weekends, long hours etc. were a sign of failure not on the development…
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Mono 3.0 is out
Miguel de Icaza's Blog
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Vim, you complete me
Ever watch someone else type at a shell, spelling out every filename, even...
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Your C# App on 66 Million Macs: Announcing Xamarin.Mac
Use an agent skill to prepare your existing .NET MAUI app for Xcode 27, with the scene lifecycle changes and manual migration steps explained.
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Python Packaging: Hate, hate, hate everywhere
A sad example of how easy it is to dismiss certain design principles because it does not seem relevant at the time.
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Introducing "Python for Android"
I’m glad to share a new project called Python for Android. The goal of this project is to package your python application into an APK. …
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Experiment: Unit testing isn't enough; You need static types, too
When I was working on my research for my Masters degree I promised myself that I would publish my paper online under a free license, as soon...
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Why critics of Rails have it all wrong (and Ruby's bright multicore future)
Edit: Contrary to what I said here, José Valim is not stepping down from Rails core, he is merely on sabbatical. My bad. Lately I've been ...
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Read the masters
Some time ago, I came across the Wikipedia article of Niels Henrik Abel , and something there burnt its way into my mind. Abel changed the face of mathematics, despite dying at 27. And here comes the thing – I give the mic to Wikipedia now:
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Understanding C by learning assembly
The Recurse Center is a self-directed, community-driven educational retreat for programmers in New York City.
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Ruby Patterns from GitHub's Codebase
Written pieces, talks, and other bits by Zach Holman.
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The /bin/true Command and Copyright
Lest you think that this is a fluke that was quickly corrected, here is the /bin/true program from AT&T's Sys/V libraries as of 1990:
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In-memory key-value store in C, Go and Python
"Coder's paternity leave turns into polyglot key-value store adventure"
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Alligator Eggs
In 2007, I met Philip Wadler at a conference, who mentioned to me that he wanted to teach lambda calculus to his eight-year-old children.
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